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The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
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The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception...
https://nonogra.ph/the-anti-palantir-manifesto-07-20-2026
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier | MIT Technology Review
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1131835/what-ai-remembers-about-you-is-privacys-next-frontier/
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Google's AI Has Access to More Than You Think. Change These 7 Settings Now to Protect Your Privacy | PCMag
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Google's AI Has Access to More Than You Think. Change These 7 Settings Now to Protect Your Privacy
Don't let Google snoop on your conversations or scoop up personal information when you use Gemini or Search. Here's how to protect yourself.
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/google-has-access-to-more-than-you-think-protect-privacy-when-using-gemini
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This setting on your Windows computer can protect you from hackers - Which?
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This setting on your Windows computer can protect you from hackers - Which?
Learn how to enable Windows' built in ransomware protection using Controlled folder access, plus other simple ways to keep your files safe
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/this-setting-on-your-windows-computer-can-protect-you-from-hackers-a9P7r0z87KMM
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Grok CLI Data Leak: Tool Uploads Code Without Consent - Geeky Gadgets
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Grok CLI Secretly Uploaded Full User Directories and SSH Keys
Grok CLI unauthorized data uploads expose SSH keys and Git repositories. Researchers used an MITM proxy to catch xAI receiving entire user directories.
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/grok-cli-unauthorized-codebase-uploads/
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'This is the right call' — VPN industry praises the UK’s decisions to leave VPN alone | TechRadar
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'This is the right call' — VPN industry praises the UK’s decisions to leave VPN alone
Officials confirm that VPN restrictions are off the cards as data proves that only a minority of kids use them to bypass age checks
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/this-is-the-right-call-vpn-industry-praises-the-uks-decisions-to-leave-vpn-alone
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The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
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The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details
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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver's license numbers | TechCrunch
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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver's license numbers | TechCrunch
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/another-massive-data-breach-exposed-millions-of-drivers-license-numbers/
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$20K in damages awarded in B.C. intimate image case
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Man ordered to pay $20K in damages for sharing woman’s intimate images without consent
A B.C. man who repeatedly posted videos he took of a “near stranger” to social media has been ordered to pay $20,000 in damages for sharing the woman’s intimate images without her consent, according t...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/man-shared-womans-intimate-images-to-gain-social-media-exposure-tribunal/
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Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign
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Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign
“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/
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Perverts of the world rejoice! It’s Meta’s new dodgy old mate glasses | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian
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Perverts of the world rejoice! It’s Meta’s new dodgy old mate glasses | First Dog on the Moon
Undetectable, always on and always sending data back to pervert headquarters
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/15/perverts-of-the-world-rejoice-its-metas-new-dodgy-old-mate-glasses
4 days ago
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Chrome Extension Used by 1.6 Million Users Silently Adds Data Exfiltration Capabilities
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Chrome Extension Used by 1.6 Million Users Silently Adds Data Exfiltration Capabilities
A widely used browser extension, ModHeader, has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after researchers found that its signed release contained a dormant capability to collect, encrypt, and potential...
https://cybersecuritynews.com/chrome-extension-used-million-users-data-exfiltration/
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software | Morocco | The Guardian
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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/16/morocco-intelligence-insider-reveals-widespread-use-hacking-software-pegasus
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Cyberstalkers Are Exploiting Chrome Sync to Spy on Victims | Certo Software
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Cyberstalkers Are Exploiting Chrome Sync to Spy on Victims | Certo Software
Certo's research team reveals how cyberstalkers are quietly switching the signed-in account in Google Chrome to remotely monitor victims' browsing history and saved passwords with no warning ever show...
https://www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyberstalkers-exploiting-chrome-sync-to-spy/
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Do not add Google Play Integrity integration · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification · Discussion #19 · GitHub
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Do not add Google Play Integrity integration · eu-digital-identity-wallet av-doc-technical-specification · Discussion #19
In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19
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Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
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Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/5271123
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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet | The Verge
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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?
https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal
5 days ago
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Meta Is Testing Police Surveillance Tech for Its Smart Glasses
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Meta Is Testing Police Surveillance Tech for Its Smart Glasses
A report suggests ties between Meta's facial recognition technology and a company that sells surveillance tools to military and police.
https://gizmodo.com/meta-is-testing-police-surveillance-tech-for-its-smart-glasses-2000771931
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California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram - Slashdot
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California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram - Slashdot
The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California. The Sacramento C...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/27/0635220/california-sheriff-says-their-drone-disarmed-a-suspect-shares-video-on-instagram
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July 15, 2026 - Schneier on Security
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July 15, 2026 - Schneier on Security
In this issue: The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking AI Use by the US Government Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis Anthropic’s...
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2026/0715.html#cg16
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/
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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/
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Italy privacy watchdog fines Character.AI owner over age-check failures | Reuters
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Italy privacy watchdog fines Character.AI owner over age-check failures
Italy's data protection authority fined Character Technologies, the U.S.-based owner ​of generative AI platform Character.AI, €158,000 ($180,500) for ‌breaches of data protection rules, it said on Thu...
https://www.reuters.com/business/italy-privacy-watchdog-fines-characterai-owner-over-age-check-failures-2026-07-09/
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out” – Patrick Breyer
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting M...
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
8 days ago
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Windows settings backup becoming a new resilience baseline - Windows IT Pro Blog
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Windows settings backup becoming a new resilience baseline - Windows IT Pro Blog
A recoverable list of settings and Microsoft Store apps is becoming a baseline part of the Windows experience rather than an opt-in configuration step.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-settings-backup-becoming-a-new-resilience-baseline/4530757
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Windows Is Tracking You? What You Missed in Cybersecurity This Week | PCMag
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Windows Is Tracking You? What You Missed in Cybersecurity This Week
Windows can link your PC to your activity, AI agents are sending crypto to scammers, and a router backdoor has no fix. Here's what you need to know this week.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-is-tracking-you-what-you-missed-in-cybersecurity-this-week
10 days ago
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AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney | The Guardian
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AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney
These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy
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Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email | WIRED
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Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.
https://www.wired.com/story/security-roundup-apples-hide-my-email-service-fails-to-hide-your-email/
15 days ago
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Cyberattack on Hong Kong’s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people | South China Morning Post
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Cyberattack on Hong Kong’s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people
Personal information of more than 920,000 customers, including their names, addresses and email addresses, involved in breach.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3359218/cyberattack-hong-kongs-shun-hing-group-affects-data-1-million-people
15 days ago
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Personal info of 70,000 people compromised in data breach involving SLA’s vendor IBM | The Straits Times
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Personal info of 70,000 people compromised in data breach involving SLA’s vendor IBM
Discover how a cybersecurity incident involving an SLA vendor led to the compromise of 70,000 individuals' personal data. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/data-of-70000-people-compromised-after-cybersecurity-incident-involving-sla-vendor-and-its-cloud
17 days ago
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Spain Orders Blacklist of US Tech Giant Palantir From Public and Private Companies
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Spain Orders Blacklist of US Tech Giant Palantir From Public and Private Companies
The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse of classifie...
https://clashreport.com/world/articles/spain-orders-blacklist-of-us-tech-giant-palantir-from-public-and-private-companies-fsnc2z17gjv
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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
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Shtetl-Optimized
The Blog of Scott Aaronson
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18 days ago
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20 days ago
🚨 Huge news For the first time, a local authority in England has formally opposed Palantir's involvement in the NHS 🧵 1/4
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Android quietly slipped a photo scanner onto your phone — here's how to shut it off
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Android quietly slipped a photo scanner onto your phone — here's how to shut it off
Google snuck a secret photo scanner on your Android.
https://www.makeuseof.com/android-photo-scanner-how-to-disable/
20 days ago
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The Eye 01: Palantir's bid to run the West
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The Eye 01: Palantir's bid to run the West
Investigative journalists Max Colbert and Charlie Young launch our new newsletter, The Eye, tracking Big Tech's capture of the state
https://citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-01-palantirs-bid-to-run-the
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GitHub - xn0tsa/because-i-got-high: 1.08M cannabis club members, 985K ID scans, no authentication required — CCS Nube / PuffPal disclosure · GitHub
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GitHub - xn0tsa/because-i-got-high: 1.08M cannabis club members, 985K ID scans, no authentication required — CCS Nube / PuffPal disclosure
1.08M cannabis club members, 985K ID scans, no authentication required — CCS Nube / PuffPal disclosure - xn0tsa/because-i-got-high
https://github.com/xn0tsa/because-i-got-high
21 days ago
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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability
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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability
Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising browser security risks.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/chrome-ad-blocker-with-10m-installs.html
21 days ago
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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet | The Verge
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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?
https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal
21 days ago
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Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
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Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmfaff/703/report.html
21 days ago
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Xprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunch
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Xprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunch
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/xprize-founder-says-humans-behave-better-when-theyre-being-watched/
22 days ago
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Episode 505 - I Read The Palantir Manifesto | The Corbett Report
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Episode 505 - I Read The Palantir Manifesto | The Corbett Report
Have you read Alex Karp's Palantir manifesto? Well, I have! Do you want to know what he says?
https://corbettreport.com/i-read-the-palantir-manifesto/
26 days ago
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Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
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Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.
https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/
27 days ago
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Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/
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Inside Palantir’s fight over the future of the NHS
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Inside Palantir’s fight over the future of the NHS
Critics question how the tech giant won a showpiece contract. It complains about the politicisation of procurement
https://www.ft.com/content/55249eee-5256-4c91-a9ed-fcdec60a4bd5
30 days ago
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Think Of The Children: How To Force Real ID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
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https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!
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I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!
Datatilsynet just fined Elkjop NOK 20 million (€1.8m) for the forced consent in its loyalty club — five years after I told their DPO it was unlawful.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/
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Alert: NCSC issues advice following global targeting of Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways | National Cyber Security Centre
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Alert: NCSC issues advice following global targeting of Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways
Organisations using Fortinet services are being urged to take action following a campaign affecting firewalls and VPN gateways.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/advice-following-global-targeting-of-fortinet-firewalls-and-vpn-gateways
about 1 month ago
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The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz | The Guardian
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The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz
Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/uk-social-media-ban-under-16s-big-tech-age-verification
about 1 month ago
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